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Buck, Rinker, 1950-
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Buck, Rinker, 1950- -- Travel -- Mississippi River.
Flatboats -- Mississippi River -- History.
Voyages and travels.
Quests (Expeditions)
Flatboats -- History.
Travel journalism.
Mississippi River -- Travel.
Mississippi River -- History.
Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration.
Mississippi River -- Description and travel.
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Buck, Rinker, 1950-
Buck, Rinker, 1950- -- Travel -- Mississippi River.
Flatboats -- Mississippi River -- History.
Voyages and travels.
Quests (Expeditions)
Flatboats -- History.
Travel journalism.
Mississippi River -- Travel.
Mississippi River -- History.
Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration.
Mississippi River -- Description and travel.
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Life
on the
Mississippi
: an
epic
American
adventure
/ Rinker Buck.
by
Buck, Rinker, 1950-
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022.
Call #:
070.44991 B922L
Subjects
Buck, Rinker, 1950- -- Travel --
Mississippi
River.
Flatboats --
Mississippi
River -- History.
Voyages and travels.
Quests (Expeditions)
Flatboats -- History.
Travel journalism.
Mississippi
River -- Travel.
Mississippi
River -- History.
Mississippi
River -- Discovery and exploration.
Mississippi
River -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
9781501106378 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Avid Reader Press hardcover ed.
Description:
397 p. : ill. (some color), maps, photographs, portraits ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"An incredible true story... Weaving a tale somewhere between a travelogue and a history lesson, Buck traces the iconic path literally and figuratively as he re-creates the great migration with his brother and a Jack Russell terrier."
Includes index.
Summary:
A modern-day Huck Finn, Buck casts off down the river accompanied by an eccentric crew of daring shipmates. Over the course of his voyage, Buck steers his fragile wooden craft through narrow channels dominated by massive cargo barges, rescues his first mate gone overboard, sails blindly through fog, clashes with overzealous period reenactors, and much more. In addition, he charts his own geographical and emotional journey while also delivering a richly satisfying work of history that brings to
life
a lost era. The role of the flatboat in our country's evolution is far more significant than most Americans realize. Decades before we struck out for the Western territories, we migrated Southwest en masse. Between 1800 and 1840, millions of farmers, merchants, and hopeful pioneers embarked from states like Pennsylvania and Virginia on wooden flatboats headed beyond the Appalachians to places like Kentucky,
Mississippi
, and Louisiana. The mighty river currents carried waves of settlers and tons of cargo from farms to ports, populating new territories and revolutionizing the
American
landscape. As Buck points out, the inland rivers of the Ohio and
Mississippi
Valleys were in fact America's first western frontier. With a rare and captivating narrative power that blends armchair
adventure
with absorbing untold history,
Life
on the
Mississippi
is a muscular and majestic feat of storytelling from a writer who may be the closest to Twain that we have today.
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070.44991 B922L
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